Through learning, growth and development is sustained. Speaking of learning, we can not limited it to the teacher-student communication in a classroom; it goes beyond that – it extends to the application of what is taught and the mastery of the concept learnt. I consider myself a learner in the school of writing, so in every possible way I’ll try to be clear on all my points in this message. I might not be able to go into the full details but will try to exhaust each point to the best of my understanding. With that clearly stated, I proceed to speak about my beloved country…
Reading through the writing of a friend and mentor, I discovered that I’m not the only person thinking and asking questions about the turn of events in my country. The South Coast of my country is a blessed region; I can liken this region to a land flowing with milk and honey, because the region is blessed with an abundant reserve of crude oil and natural gas, but what do we get for this blessing – fighting, militancy and unrest.
We have a treasure other countries in the world would give anything up to get at the moment, and all we can do with this treasure is fight over it, hinder the further exploration of the resource and development of this resource in the country. We have the means to refine the crude oil; we have the means to process the natural gas, instead we export them to foreign lands for refining. Why won’t the price of fuel, diesel and other crude products be high? If the Sudanese in this same Africa would buy this commodity (fuel) for 68 cents per gallon (4 liters) why should we be getting ours for N70 aLITER (about 215 cent a gallon)? The government of my country can’t stand up to say no to exporting this crude oil because many individuals in this government are benefitting from the export deals at the expense of the unemployment of their citizens, brutality of the militant groups and the economic impact this would have on the good people of my beloved country.
Moving around the streets on the city in the South Coast where I stay at the moment, you’ll see the poverty and suffering of our people, my heart bleeds as I go about my daily activities, because on the streets I see unemployment, suffering and abject poverty in a city that should be flowing with milk and honey. What can be done to better the lot of my beloved country? We deserve better.
No amount of Social Security Scheme put in place in this region would solve the problem of militancy that is draining the country of a lot of money by the day. The economy is in soup, because the guys looting the government treasury are investing this money into other economies in the world, so development in the country is near zero. It is very difficult to tell if any aspect of the government is working. Well thank God for Soludo (The Governor of our Central Bank); it’s only in the banking sector that we have heard of a profit, over the last 2 years he’s been able to record a 33.33% profit in this sector of the economy. God bless that guy. He’s tried for my mother land in so many ways; he tried to bring back value to our devalued currency by redenomination, but the politicians in the country won’t welcome this idea, because their billions will be devalued. They stripped the man of every right to push for the redenomination of the currency, too bad for the country. Even if the economics behind the redenomination had not been worked out too well by Soludo, the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth should have looked into the possibilities if achieving this goal of redenomination. Instead the idea was rejected and the thinker kicked out of the Committee without any explanation. Even if there is a logical reason for doing that, who cares? The government just showed how private interests supersede public interest. If the policy to be instituted won’t favour certain individuals then let it die in the mind of its originator.
My beloved country, will this continue unabated? In the face of challenges, committees are instituted to look into these challenges and proffer solutions, instead of doing this the committee create avenues to enrich themselves and leave the job undone. In the face of a recent Power Sector Scam, where a lot of the country’s investments from the last administration can’t be traced, a new committee set up to tackle this same power challenges in this administration is already demanding for an impossible sum to accomplish a task that their predecessors couldn’t do with all the money invested there.
Thinking of solutions, we’ve got great minds and I know we can’t lack solutions, but when these minds ain’t forthcoming with the ideas they’ve got up there, we can’t move forward. But you know, it’s not easy, they don’t want to proffer solutions that would be ignored, they want their opinions to count and the strategies and policies they suggest implemented. This is the only way our government will move forward and this is the only way what I say and we say will count, though I’ve always believed and still believe that even if no one listens today, they surely listen tomorrow. We need a decentralized government, a government that reaches the grass root and impacts the common man, because as long as allocations are released to people who never worked for the allocation you can’t expect anything short of waste. This is why the common man has to work for the development of his community; where the grass-root government coordinates the activities using the available resources to provide jobs that will sustain the common man in the community, encouraging him to give his best for the growth of the community. This way we all have a stake in the growth of our beloved country. In the meanwhile, we must talk; we must say something to the world and to our people about the state of our country, so that they will know and understand that if we won’t stand up to face the challenges that we’re taking lightly today, the next generation won’t forgive our negligence. We can change the lot of our country; we can contribute to the development of our country by adding value to the lives around us and positively impacting people we meet as we go about our daily assignments. My beloved country shall be great. God bless NIGERIA!
Lessons From Life
Posted by davidluiz in Political
Through learning, growth and development is sustained. Speaking of learning, we can not limited it to the teacher-student communication in a classroom; it goes beyond that – it extends to the application of what is taught and the mastery of the concept learnt. I consider myself a learner in the school of writing, so in every possible way I’ll try to be clear on all my points in this message. I might not be able to go into the full details but will try to exhaust each point to the best of my understanding. With that clearly stated, I proceed to speak about my beloved country…
Reading through the writing of a friend and mentor, I discovered that I’m not the only person thinking and asking questions about the turn of events in my country. The South Coast of my country is a blessed region; I can liken this region to a land flowing with milk and honey, because the region is blessed with an abundant reserve of crude oil and natural gas, but what do we get for this blessing – fighting, militancy and unrest.
We have a treasure other countries in the world would give anything up to get at the moment, and all we can do with this treasure is fight over it, hinder the further exploration of the resource and development of this resource in the country. We have the means to refine the crude oil; we have the means to process the natural gas, instead we export them to foreign lands for refining. Why won’t the price of fuel, diesel and other crude products be high? If the Sudanese in this same Africa would buy this commodity (fuel) for 68 cents per gallon (4 liters) why should we be getting ours for N70 a LITER (about 215 cent a gallon)? The government of my country can’t stand up to say no to exporting this crude oil because many individuals in this government are benefitting from the export deals at the expense of the unemployment of their citizens, brutality of the militant groups and the economic impact this would have on the good people of my beloved country.
Moving around the streets on the city in the South Coast where I stay at the moment, you’ll see the poverty and suffering of our people, my heart bleeds as I go about my daily activities, because on the streets I see unemployment, suffering and abject poverty in a city that should be flowing with milk and honey. What can be done to better the lot of my beloved country? We deserve better.
No amount of Social Security Scheme put in place in this region would solve the problem of militancy that is draining the country of a lot of money by the day. The economy is in soup, because the guys looting the government treasury are investing this money into other economies in the world, so development in the country is near zero. It is very difficult to tell if any aspect of the government is working. Well thank God for Soludo (The Governor of our Central Bank); it’s only in the banking sector that we have heard of a profit, over the last 2 years he’s been able to record a 33.33% profit in this sector of the economy. God bless that guy. He’s tried for my mother land in so many ways; he tried to bring back value to our devalued currency by redenomination, but the politicians in the country won’t welcome this idea, because their billions will be devalued. They stripped the man of every right to push for the redenomination of the currency, too bad for the country. Even if the economics behind the redenomination had not been worked out too well by Soludo, the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth should have looked into the possibilities if achieving this goal of redenomination. Instead the idea was rejected and the thinker kicked out of the Committee without any explanation. Even if there is a logical reason for doing that, who cares? The government just showed how private interests supersede public interest. If the policy to be instituted won’t favour certain individuals then let it die in the mind of its originator.
My beloved country, will this continue unabated? In the face of challenges, committees are instituted to look into these challenges and proffer solutions, instead of doing this the committee create avenues to enrich themselves and leave the job undone. In the face of a recent Power Sector Scam, where a lot of the country’s investments from the last administration can’t be traced, a new committee set up to tackle this same power challenges in this administration is already demanding for an impossible sum to accomplish a task that their predecessors couldn’t do with all the money invested there.
Thinking of solutions, we’ve got great minds and I know we can’t lack solutions, but when these minds ain’t forthcoming with the ideas they’ve got up there, we can’t move forward. But you know, it’s not easy, they don’t want to proffer solutions that would be ignored, they want their opinions to count and the strategies and policies they suggest implemented. This is the only way our government will move forward and this is the only way what I say and we say will count, though I’ve always believed and still believe that even if no one listens today, they surely listen tomorrow. We need a decentralized government, a government that reaches the grass root and impacts the common man, because as long as allocations are released to people who never worked for the allocation you can’t expect anything short of waste. This is why the common man has to work for the development of his community; where the grass-root government coordinates the activities using the available resources to provide jobs that will sustain the common man in the community, encouraging him to give his best for the growth of the community. This way we all have a stake in the growth of our beloved country. In the meanwhile, we must talk; we must say something to the world and to our people about the state of our country, so that they will know and understand that if we won’t stand up to face the challenges that we’re taking lightly today, the next generation won’t forgive our negligence. We can change the lot of our country; we can contribute to the development of our country by adding value to the lives around us and positively impacting people we meet as we go about our daily assignments. My beloved country shall be great. God bless NIGERIA!